Investigating Parody from Social Media Accounts

Abstract

Parody is a widespread comic on different social media platforms. As the usage of social media increases, the number of parody accounts increases as well. The main purpose of parody accounts is to spread fake news or to criticize someone in comic ways. In this paper, we investigate parody for different social media accounts. For this study, a customized tweets dataset is created related to different Pakistani personalities and companies. The experiment is carried out using different machine learning and deep learning methods. Our results indicate an accuracy of 92% using RoBERTa.